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Then guards would deliberately disarrange the pile and announce that everyone must be dressed in five minutes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Eyes still watering and head still throbbing, he drew his wand, careful not to disarrange the Cloak, and waited, breath held.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

“So your pelo loco, like clippings of grass, will not disarrange this house,” she says.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads

If I'd say the right thing to President Ford, well and good; if not, your brother would disarrange things for the government by giving away the secret of the gold placers.

From The City of Numbered Days by Francis Lynde

She was becoming more and more conscious of a desperate impulse to ruffle his hair, and tumble his collar, and disarrange generally this painfully well-dressed young man, with his air of extreme condescension.

From Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing by Gertrude Page

That unleashed force is plied most artfully here to create a portrait of how grief unhinges, disarranges and heightens everyday life.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2019

A similar expression now and again disarranges the handsome, sardonic features of the title character of “Butley” in Lindsay Posner’s engaging revival at the Duchess Theater.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2011

When a stiff wind disarranges his lacquered locks, he looks panic-stricken, like a man who’s just seen his own ghost.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

And the contretemps of the last minute—a sudden death that disarranges the bridal party; a wretched cold that prevents a favorite cantatrice from singing, and so forth, and so forth.

From The Simple Life by Mary Louise Hendee

Antony begins to laugh; and, while stretching out his arms, disarranges the leaves of the book with the tips of his fingers.

From The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul by Gustave Flaubert

It doesn't take long to decide whether Netflix’s “3 Body Problem” is extraordinary or a disarranged travesty.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2024

Those of us with brains long since disarranged from a lifelong soak in college football must adapt now.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 6, 2022

For his solo work “Compression,” the choreographer Niall Jones has arranged, or disarranged, a small theater at Performance Space New York into this in-between state.

From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2022

The 54-year-old Johnson has managed to use his disarranged, slightly comical hair as a helmet, shielding him from more serious scrutiny.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 9, 2018

Estranged, disarranged, we spend our darkest hours staring at those pearls, those coral bones.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

The monkey, disarranging her palm-oiled coiffure, is soon to go to the States.

From Time Magazine Archive

She hops onto the bed beside me, disarranging my small pile of threadbare stuffed animals—a koala, a snake, a black cat—all beloved of my seven-year-old self.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

"Please don't!" he begged them, in despair, "You're disarranging all my hair."

From Misrepresentative Men by Harry Graham

As well as she could without disarranging the set of it, she smoothed each long curl into order as she walked along.

From A Sheaf of Corn by Mary E. Mann

The scenes were somewhat spoiled by Abdul Baha not remaining in focus and disarranging the scenario.

From Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha by Samuel Graham Wilson